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| Friday, April 27, 2007 |
saturday morning and im bored as hell...oh and to answer some of the comments from 3 posts down...yes little bladders are cute, as are little livers, hearts and lungs. also, YES i wanna rent a private island and go for holiday..and i wouldnt mind not getting married if we could all live there together.too bad xunny.
woke up at 430am on thursday morning for liverpool vs chelsea...waste of time i tell you....its 3 hours of my life that i will never get back.
school was really relaxing this week...only 13 out of the normal 28 hours due to public holidays, and the lack of 2 lab classes and 1 tutorial.
i realise ive only got like 5 weeks til exams start. :((((((
but only 2 months til im on a flight home....yeah baby. prata, mee goreng, mee pok, chilli crab, max brenner's here i come.
went out with jema on wednesday. i brought her to brunetti's to eat cake. nutella hazelnut praline or something like that. all that matters is that it was heavenly!
my new bio lecturer is the cutest thing ever..he's about 70, really skinny, white hair, and he wears shorts and long sleeved shirts to ever lecture...plus really long white socks and white tennis shoes. haha i love him.
jose mourinho is the world's biggest moaner. i hate him. i love ronaldo.
hahaha ok my brain isnt working and ive got nothing to say.this week was so uninteresting! i'll be back when i something exciting happens in my life.
np: arcade fire - keep the car running. |
posted by kiki @ 6:47 PM  |
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| Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
np: Texas-Inner Smile
ok for those who dont like football, you can just not read this post.
the weekend wasnt perfect in footballing terms...i thought we had slipped up big time when we could only draw with boro...i thought chelsea were certain to beat newcastle. but football always surprises us when we dont expect it...newcastle held chelsea to a draw and now its all square again. apparently ryan giggs text messaged nicky butt to ask him to do man utd a favour and keep chelsea at bay. nicky butt=legend.
today morning...430am...was the most heartstopping game i've watched in a long long long time. manchester united vs AC Milan at Old Trafford, Champions League semi final.
5th min: Ronaldo goal Man utd 1 Milan 0
22nd min: Kaka goal Man utd 1 Milan 1
37th min: Kaka goal Man utd 1 Milan 2
59th min: Rooney goal Man utd 2 Milan 2
91st min: Rooney goal Man utd 3 Milan 2
omggggggggggg i swear my heart was pumping so hard it started to hurt. brilliant game. man utd had an injury ravaged defence...rio, neville, vidic all injured. so we put out oshea,brown,heinze and evra. not our best defence BY FAR. and Kaka's 2 goals. massive defensive lapses...
but man utd's attacking players...what can i say about them. carrick fletcher scholes ronaldo rooney giggs. brilliant play in the second half...fletch was man of the match if you ask me. tackling shooting passing running running and more running. i cant even write about the game coherently, it was THAT good.
conceding 2 away goals was NOT what we wanted, but if we go to milan and just attack-unleash our wingers on them (they have a wide pitch and an ancient defence) and show some whisper of a defence next week...i think we can go through...i really really do. and if we dont...well at least we went down fighting. from the group stages to the semi finals in one season is something to be proud of.
manchester united will be the death of me...i seriously think i will die cheering during one of their games. but what a happy death it will be.
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| posted by kiki @ 7:45 PM |
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| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
np: the fray - look after you
ok im back to normal now. its been a very stressful 4 days...but its all over.
tuesday, phys prac was long and boring, but my partner and i managed to get thru it with the help of a student who had used our workstation before us and happened to leave all his answers there...hurray..the guys behind us thought we were damn smart cos we had answers to all their questions.
wednesday, the day i was most afraid of. rat dissection day. managed to get thru the boring-ass physics lecture somehow(with the help of darling roberto's coffee of course) and made my way nervously upstairs. it was bloody cold and to make things worse, they opened the windows in the lab so that it wouldnt stink too much. chose a very nice, clean, white female rat. i suspect they were gassed that morning itself, as rigor mortis hadnt set in yet. the thing i was most nervous of before was not blood and guts and stuff, but whether i would actually be able to make the first incision into the animal. i mean, if i couldnt, that would be like, the end of my veterinary dream. but i think the trick is confidence...so i just grabbed my scissors, and cut. and thankfully, i did not feel sick, sad, weepy, wobbly, faint, or anything else. i just felt calm. out of respect to my rat, i will not say that i had fun. i did not have fun. but i must say i valued the experience. this whole slicing into an animal thing has been worrying me for a couple of years, and now i've proven to myself that i can do it. for me, its a big mental hurdle thats been overcome. so yay! the prac demonstrators were very nice about this prac as well, always helping, teaching and warning ppl that anyone found mutilating/disrespecting their rat would automatically fail the prac.it was a very informative session, things are different when you see them in the flesh and not the perfect textbook diagrams. i mistook my rat's uterus for its bladder(WHAT?? they're next to each other ANYWAY) and the scottish guy across the table(i finally learnt his name, its malcolm) was nice enough to point out my mistake and show me where the bladder really was. i dint think much of him digging thru his(AND MY) rat with his bare fingers, but whatever, he's smart. i'll need a friend like him in bio lab.to top it all off, i think i got full marks for this prac, so i'm really happy.thanks to my rat for sacrificing her life for the sake of my education.
today was the last of my worrisome days, physics mid semester test, which actually went pretty well. so its all over, got a relaxing week next week. no school on tues or wed...and only 3 hours on friday. and jema will be here on sunday, so we'll go out.
i got shut out of my internet banking account a couple of days ago so had to go to the bank today to sort it all out. turns out they tracked someone logging into my account from the US....which was of course my DAD, whom i gave the password to, but apparently its considered a security breach, so had to go there, talk to the customer service officer in another office...settle everything, then my banking account got unlocked. called my dad to tell him to keep his itchy,albeit well-meaning fingers away from my net bank account. and found out that my mother has been on a shopping spree in NYC and bought etienne aigner shoes...i believe my exact reaction to this news was to shout damn loudly in the middle of campus: WAH LIVING IT UP AH???? omg im so embarrassing..its like how during bio lecture on wednesday, when my lecturer flashed a pic of footballers i said really really really loudly YAY!!! i should just bury my head in sand.
today a funny thing happened to me. i got on the tram to go to melbourne central train station during my lunch hour and thought to myself as the tram left the stop outside school...i think i should validate my card today. validating a card is basically how we pay our transport fare. usually i just dont validate and grab a free ride since i only travel 3 or 4 stops...but today something compelled me to validate my ticket. if caught with an unvalidated ticket by a conductor, i face a fine and my visa can be revoked after multiple offences. so i validated. on my way BACK to school for earth science, when i got off at the school stop, who should be waiting on the pavement but a bunch of conductors...bloody hell what a close call..so many students got caught for their tickets...lucky i decided to follow my gut. :)
spent half an hour chatting with roberto(the coffee guy to whom all my money goes) on wednesday. he was telling me how he's going on a holiday with a bunch of his friends to a PRIVATE ISLAND, which his gazillionaire friend is renting. the friend is bringing a 5-star chef along. and a YACHT..... yeah...a yacht. i was speechless for a full 10 seconds i swear. bloody hell how cool does that sound la??? i oso want a life like this...3 months holiday every year, go to private island, stand around and chat with students everyday. good stuff man. that's the way to live.
but unfortunately its not my life. now i have to go re-copy my bio notes...which i stupidly wrote on the wrong page of my lecture summary set. the bodoh lecturer skipped a lecture and dint tell us, and i without reading the heading on the page, blindly went to take notes on the wrong page. !#(@*%&^ i hate when nonsense like this happens.
np: hanson - go |
| posted by kiki @ 1:48 AM |
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| Monday, April 16, 2007 |
32 students were killed in a university in Virginia,USA, 33 counting the bastard gunman. suddenly my problems seem pretty trivial. God bless the victims and their families.and Bush, for fuck's sake just fucking BAN guns you moron. ppl say singapore are too harsh with rules that restrict our freedom...but if it means i can go to school and not worry about getting shot, or pierced with a druggie's needle while running around barefoot on the beach or in the park, then that's fine by me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm
RIP. |
| posted by kiki @ 8:39 PM |
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np: coldplay - the scientist.
today i was walking home from school at 615pm. it was dark already and pretty chilly. so there i was, walking, with my hands stuffed in my sweater pockets, my toes starting to lose feeling in my flip flops, the wind blowing my hair(which is now longer than it has ever been in all my 18 years) and oasis blaring into my ears as i maxed my ipod volume. and i felt peaceful, for the first time in many, many months.
and then, thoughts of my bio test, thursday's physics test, tuesday and wednesday's practicals, thoughts of my future, thoughts of the horrible nightmare i had last night, thoughts of the last 2 years that i completely wasted entered my head again and the peace was just shattered. it was really quite depressing for a couple of minutes. i remember the exact lyrics that were playing.
cos maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me
today's bio test...it wasnt all doom, gloom end of the world, but i know it could have gone better if i had put in more effort. story of my life! and the practicals coming up, especially bio. i'm dissecting a rat. don't even get me started on the nerves i'm feeling. and i have a mountain of reading to do for tmr and wednesday, plus study for thursday's phys test. its all a bit too much man.
add to that, the fact that i had almost zero sleep last night. had a pretty bad recurring nightmare that woke me up thrice in 5 hours. i was literally drenched in cold sweat. my cedar tee that i was sleeping in was wet and cold by the time i woke up at 7 to take a shower. it was my first nightmare in a couple of years i think. not sure what brought it on. anxiety? who knows.
had to have 2 coffees to stay awake today, thats how crappy i was feeling. but chem tut and earth science lecture went well, not to mention bio lecture, where we've started zoology. now THIS is what i'm interested in. animal anatomy, physiology, behaviour. THIS SORT OF THING. not cell biology and botany. today, when the lecturer was explaining the reasoning behind certain animal behaviour, i found myself instinctively supplying answers that i thought might be right (in my head of course, i dint voice anything aloud) and i was really happy when most of them were right. i felt like finally i was learning something actually worth knowing(to me at least) and that made me happy.
went out with my sis and hk on friday. we were eating at the train station and sitting at our table was this very elderly man in a suit eating a banana and iced coffee. he made some small talk with my sister and he was such a sweet old man. and suddenly, i missed my grandma. haha it was a fleeting feeling that comes out of nowhere occasionally.
ok i know this is a completely, random all over the place entry. but i needed to let off some steam. its all good, its not like im really sad or anything, just a bit stressed.
you know what's making me happy tho? football. another win for manchester united. we're going to wembley.
another thing that's making me happy: my dinner tonight. i had a bowl of kellog's frosties.with no milk. twice.
np: snow patrol - run |
| posted by kiki @ 4:05 AM |
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| Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
np: aqualung - brighter than sunshine
on the 10th of April 2007, at 1945GMT, manchester united thrashed roma 7-1.
suddenly my world seems so much brighter.cant say much for the game,it was just too amazing to describe. awesome play, awesome goals. SMITH SCORED!!
havent slept much in the past few days. 4 hours on monday night, 5 hours last night. and i keep going to bed when the sun is coming up. its worth it though, finished prison break season 2 and this morning i got to watch the best game of football EVER.
i also saw 300 yesterday with melissa and val. OH MY GAWD it was really really really cool. the whole thing was shot to look like a graphic novel and wah...it was just so entertaining. i need a spartan king of my own!! haha. the way they shot the fights with slow mo and stuff...it looks almost like the guys are dancing. borrowed elements from troy and lotr(including cast!!) and not much in terms of plot, but still one of the most entertaining movies i've ever seen.
went to eat after the movie...but mel and i were full from eating doritos in the cinema, so we had dessert while val ate lasagne at this place on lygon called cafe trevi...i had a bailey's cheesecake which just left me in a happy coma. and an iced coffee. the place had all these amazing SIGNED football jerseys all over, like maradona, BECKHAM, nedved, RONALDINHO, henry(pfft) and the euro04 winning greek team(DOUBLE PFFT)...i took a pic of most of them and took a pic WITH the maradona jersey with mel. i dont care if we looked stupid, it was nice to be just standing next to something he touched. and PELE signed the brazil jersey...SERIOUSLY YESTERDAY REALLY COULDNT HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER....chelsea got thru to the semis tho...at the expense of my darling vicente...damn jose and his band of 1-0 muppets.
the ironic part of our meal was that we were watching 'the biggest loser' on the tv in the cafe, which is this weight loss competition...haha while we were indulging in massive slabs of chocolately and alcoholic goodness...then we were hoping that after eating, we wouldnt have to JOIN the biggest loser.
gotta stop eating man...im gonna become damn fat by the time june rolls around and its time to go home.
ok can i just say before i go, that I'M IN LOVE WITH MY SCREENSAVER...and i know aga's in love with hers too..
np: bloc party - banquet |
| posted by kiki @ 9:31 PM |
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| Monday, April 09, 2007 |
 3 years ago, i wanted to MARRY this guy and have his babies. vicente rodriguez..yummm
but vicente's a bit old...so i'll settle for cristiano.
random entry ya'll...but i havent posted hot guy pics in a while...and i know aga will appreciate this! plus every other living, breathing, red blooded female...which counts my sister out. |
| posted by kiki @ 4:30 AM |
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| Sunday, April 08, 2007 |
np: the fray - look after you
omg i havent stopped eating in 3 days. holidays do not agree with me. its been nothing but bread, soup, pasta, milo, juice and cereal. seriously i have NOT STOPPED EATING. gah!!
new favourite food. peanut butter and raspberry jam on toast...with a nice steaming cup of milo. told my friends, then found out that 2 of them hate peanut butter. hmph. had a cup of cream of mushroom, laden with pepper, and a slice of buttery toast, only to find out that navleen loves the exact same thing. we're soulmates ya'll...SOULMATES...forget stupid boys, navleen and i should just get married and go on foodie adventures together. preferably to majorca!! lucky bum!
anyway, been trying to study some bio for the last 3 days. finished 2 chapters. HA i'm gonna be screwed for mid-sems if i dont start studying tmr. but i got things to do tmr. like grocery shopping. and that always takes a long time cos i love walking around in the grocery shop looking at biscuits. horror of all horrors, i've RUN OUT OF TIM TAMS!! plus i've got a 20% borders discount coupon and its gonna take ALL of my willpower not to pop into borders tmr on the way to the supermarket and grab a book!!
wanted to buy the kite runner but my mum called in the nick of time and mentioned that she has it at home. mission for my one month holiday at home? read the alchemist, and the kite runner, see all my friends, eat lots of good food, do some exercise to prevent becoming fat after eating said good food...and go to the beach to get a tan while my friends in Aus shiver their butts off....its gonna be a good holiday.
ok things to do tmr...message jason who's going into army, pay my rent, check my mailbox, buy groceries. what else. not much. oh ya, start STUDYING and find out the plan for tuesday.
right now i have to go transfer all my clothes from the washer to the dryer. this is no mean feat. i waited til i'd run out of clean underwear and sleeping tee shirts/shorts before i went to do laundry. the 6 bucks i have to pay each time might as well be spent well!! but its a bitch to fold everything. oh plus i gotta wash all the stuff i used to cook dinner. plus throw my rubbish. this living alone thing is not all its cracked up to be.
on a brighter note: I'VE GONE THREE DAYS WITHOUT COFFEE!! yay.
np: john mayer - back to you. |
| posted by kiki @ 3:32 AM |
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| Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
np: bitter sweet - dirty laundry
this song is the coolest thing i've heard in a while. thanks karn!! but it makes me miss singing quite a lot. especially musicals with choreography.
its been a good week so far. no pracs, mostly lectures, and tmr's the last day before easter break. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! went for dinner with mel, esther and val tonight. thai food which was yummy. had gelato after that. it was our one day of the week splurge. plus esther's going back to sgp for easter, so it was like a send off dinner of sorts. haha anyway it was damn good. wednesday night and we were standing in the park talking and eating ice cream like it was a holiday.
i highly recommend the following book: 'In the country of men' by Hisham Matar.
it is the story of a nine year old Libyan boy living/embroiled in the tyrannical regime of Muammar al gaddafi in late 1970s-early 1980s. even if you're politically apathetic like me, you will not be put off by this book. the politcal aspect is never really openly talked about and gaddafi is never referred to by name, but the political situation casts this oppressive shadow over the book. its so well written, and sad, and moving...and i just cant describe how you would feel after reading it. it is a magnificent book if you ask me.
it was one of the nominees for the man booker prize last year. how kiran desai won when this book was in the running is completely beyond me.
i'm starting to think that i wont be spending my easter break studying. this is dangerous. i'm hoping the libraries in school remain open cos there's no way i can study at home what with the internet and tv distracting me.ive found a new, really good site for watching tv shows. ugly betty, grey's, heroes, YOU NAME IT THEY HAVE IT!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHH why did i have to find it just before test week.
!^#@%&(
champions league tmr morning. liverpool thrashed psv this morning...bayern and milan drew. hope man u wins...and valencia as well.
its cold...i'm tired...i have nothing else to say...except, READ IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN!!
np: KT Tunstall - suddenly i see |
| posted by kiki @ 5:24 AM |
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| Sunday, April 01, 2007 |
oh my God, i should be struck down by lightning. i spent 126 bucks today...and i only feel slightly guilty. i'm too happy with my new stuff to be disgusted with myselffffff....
went shopping at the factory outlets at essondon...which is bloody far away from the city (its almost at the airport) with melissa, esther and val.had to walk for about 20 mins from the train station. we, being typical singaporeans, were there when the place opened...at 10am. and dint leave til 5pm. ha...we're horrible. so anyway, bought 2 tees, a skirt(YES A SKIRT, EVERYBODY GASP IN HORROR), a pair of 3/4 pants and a very lovely pair of 9 west shoes, along with lunch, coffee and my train ticket. 126bucks. not too bad...but still, its a lot of money.
kanina, michael phelps just broke ian thorpe's world record of 6 world championship gold medals. suddenly my day has turned very sour. at least he got DQ-ed from the 4x100 relay. and ian thorpe has been accused of taking drugs...my message to FINA. fuck off. simple as that.
man u whacked bolton 4-1!!! FOUR!!! brilliant second half. roma on thursday morning. bloody aussie tv is showing milan-munich...shitheads.
ok time for dinner. im damn tired and hungry after my day. and i dun wanna go to school tmr...at least its the week before easter break...and I ONLY HAVE 19 HOURS OF SCHOOL THIS WEEK! hurray!
EDIT: Ok i take back the hurray...watching grant hackett swim the 1500m freestyle. aiyoh..he's losing so badly. this is the guy who has OWNED the 15oo free since 1997. it should be named the grant hackett race. never won anything other than a gold for ANY 1500 race he has competed in since 97. wah lao eh, hackett has been awful this whole week. my heart goes out to him. but its ok...in the olympics next year...he will blast EVERYBODY out of the water. |
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